Guantanamo Bay inmate released after help from Portland lawyers

A Sudanese hospital administrator and high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainee has been released and returned home, his Portland attorneys said Thursday.

"I thank God almighty and express my gratefulness to you. I can finally see the light after the darkness," Adel Hassan Hamad said in a statement.

Military documents accused Hamad of having ties to organizations supported by al-Qaeda, but his lawyers in the Federal Public Defender's office in Portland traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to find evidence of his innocence.

Steven T. Wax, the federal defender for Oregon, said Hamad will continue to attempt to clear his name through the courts.